[OSM-talk] Addressing systems (Was: Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM)

Steve Doerr doerr.stephen at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 19:51:29 UTC 2018


On 03/08/2018 09:22, oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch wrote:
> I just tried to create the 3-words address for a building in Odessa, 
> Ukraine. The system suggested "dressings.cookies.brothers". It would 
> be close to impossible to transmit these three words over the 
> telephone to a local taxi dispatcher.
>
> Some people may just not know English words well enough. The same 
> about 8 English letters. But 8 Cyrillic letters may work. If the UTF8 
> encoding is used in a database then both Latin and Cyrillic letters 
> could be used, and, perhaps, other scripts.

You can set the language to Russian. This, I believe, gives the address 
as лотерея.русый.замок

-- 
Steve

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